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As I understand it, it doesn't include (all of?) the XS components of the module, making reftype() unavailable for the ActivePerl 5.8.x releases.

The explanation I heard (and I don't remember where, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't from you) is that one goal of the ActivePerl releases for 5.8.x was to maintain binary compatibility back to 5.8.0, and thus there would be no reftype() available for Scalar::Util.

When I last looked at which of my distributions failed in the AS build and test farm, most of the

Invisible characters were much more difficult to see 30 years ago, but (so the story goes) a dozen people already used make, so the author both regretted the choice of literal tabs and couldn't fix the program.